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Updated on February 4, 2019

Welcome!

Queen’s University Library is delighted to announce that we have purchased an institutional subscription to Covidence in order to make the research review process more time- and cost-efficient. To learn more about library support available for research reviews, please visit the library guide: Systematic Reviews & Other Syntheses, or contact bracken.library@queensu.ca for more information.

What is Covidence?

Covidence is a web-based software platform that streamlines the production of systematic reviews and other research reviews that require screening citations and full text, assessing risk of bias, or extracting study characteristics and outcomes.

Key features of Covidence are:

Support for duplicated, independent processes, including at citation screening, full text review, Risk of Bias (RoB) and Data Extraction stages

Resolution of screening, RoB, and data extraction conflicts, and agreement on final consensus data

Import of citations from a range of bibliographic databases and reference managers and de-duplication of study citations (with manual override)

Storage of full text study reports

Automatic population of Risk of Bias tables with text selected in full text reports

Simple export of data into RevMan or Excel

Why join the Queen’s University institutional license for Covidence?

Unlimited records for each review

Unlimited number of reviewers for each review

Unlimited number of reviews

How to join the Queen’s University institutional license:(Instructions with screenshots provided below)

Reviews created using the Queen’s University institutional account will be visible to Covidence subscription administrators at Queen’s University Library. Reviews created using your personal account are only visible to you.

Covidence help and support: (Instructions with screenshots provided below)

Covidence provides pages of useful information including answers to FAQs and short video tutorials in their Knowledge Base. All videos are also available on Covidence's YouTube channel.